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The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened…The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened…
The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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Rule 5.
The glances of the eye at self-ends in duties, whilst self is not the weight that moves the wheels, the principal end and design we drive at, and whilst those glances are corrected and mourned for; do not conclude the heart to be unsound and Hypocritical in Religion: for even among the most deeply sanctified, few can keep their eye so steady and fixed with pure and unmixed respects to the glory of God, but that there will be (alas too frequently some by•ends insinuating and creeping into the heart.
The glances of the eye at self-ends in duties, whilest self is not the weight that moves the wheels, the principal end and design we drive at, and whilest those glances are corrected and mourned for; do not conclude the heart to be unsound and Hypocritical in Religion: for even among the most deeply sanctified, few can keep their eye so steady and fixed with pure and unmixed respects to the glory of God, but that there will be (alas too frequently some by•ends insinuating and creeping into the heart.
These like the fowls seize upon the sacrifice, let the soul take what pains it can to •ray them away. It's well that our High-Priest bears the iniquities of our holy things ⟨p. 186⟩for us: Peter had too much regard to the pleasing of men, and did not walk with that upright foot towards the Gentile Christians and the believing Jews in the matter of liberty as became him,